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The Names They Still Won't Mention
The baby had gone into a deep sleep in the warm funeral home and she was flat on her back in the mother's arms as the mother brought her out into the chill night. The baby did not move. Warm air, cold air, it made no difference.
The mother was carrying her out from the wake of Sgt. Joel Perez, dead at 25 when he went down in a Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 2. The wake was in a funeral home with a neon sign saying, "Funerarias Las Americas."
"I'm the cousin," the woman said.
"His mother called my mother and then my mother told me," she said. "That is how you find out."
She shook her head and said she didn't want to talk anymore and she left.
On the funeral parlor steps were Omar Valentine, 22, and a friend.
"Did you know the guy well?" Omar was asked.
"The wife."
"From school," the friend said.
"We graduated high school together. Essex County Vocational."
"He was coming home to surprise them," the friend said.
That is all they had to say. Nobody else wanted to talk, either. What was there to say?
There is no public display over the death and all these others on the list accompanying this column. Bush and his people sent them out to get killed and now you can't get one of them in Washington to mention these dead. Your government would prefer that night falls and the dead are buried in darkness.
The other Sunday, in high excitement, Sgt. Perez got on a helicopter that was going to start him home to his wife, Milagros, and 15-month-old daughter in time for the wedding anniversary, which was yesterday, the day they put him into the ground in Newark.
He had not told his wife that he was coming home and the others in the family kept it secret. He got on that helicopter because he had a Bronze Star and Purple Heart from the fighting.
Now, yesterday, he was a name on a list of the dead. If I had not been typing out this list, I wouldn't have known that Perez was the short ride away at Newark.
There is no public display over the death and all these others on the list accompanying this column. Bush and his people sent them out to get killed and now you can't get one of them in Washington to mention these dead.
Your government would prefer that night falls and the dead are buried in darkness.
Link to whole story.....
The baby had gone into a deep sleep in the warm funeral home and she was flat on her back in the mother's arms as the mother brought her out into the chill night. The baby did not move. Warm air, cold air, it made no difference.
The mother was carrying her out from the wake of Sgt. Joel Perez, dead at 25 when he went down in a Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 2. The wake was in a funeral home with a neon sign saying, "Funerarias Las Americas."
"I'm the cousin," the woman said.
"His mother called my mother and then my mother told me," she said. "That is how you find out."
She shook her head and said she didn't want to talk anymore and she left.
On the funeral parlor steps were Omar Valentine, 22, and a friend.
"Did you know the guy well?" Omar was asked.
"The wife."
"From school," the friend said.
"We graduated high school together. Essex County Vocational."
"He was coming home to surprise them," the friend said.
That is all they had to say. Nobody else wanted to talk, either. What was there to say?
There is no public display over the death and all these others on the list accompanying this column. Bush and his people sent them out to get killed and now you can't get one of them in Washington to mention these dead. Your government would prefer that night falls and the dead are buried in darkness.
The other Sunday, in high excitement, Sgt. Perez got on a helicopter that was going to start him home to his wife, Milagros, and 15-month-old daughter in time for the wedding anniversary, which was yesterday, the day they put him into the ground in Newark.
He had not told his wife that he was coming home and the others in the family kept it secret. He got on that helicopter because he had a Bronze Star and Purple Heart from the fighting.
Now, yesterday, he was a name on a list of the dead. If I had not been typing out this list, I wouldn't have known that Perez was the short ride away at Newark.
There is no public display over the death and all these others on the list accompanying this column. Bush and his people sent them out to get killed and now you can't get one of them in Washington to mention these dead.
Your government would prefer that night falls and the dead are buried in darkness.
Link to whole story.....
posted by A. J. Franklin @ 18:34
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